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Student life

How I came to love Cornell

A&S Student Ambassador

Sophomore Mitchell Lee, one of our A&S Student Ambassadors, writes about the classes and people that make Cornell one of his favorite places to be.

Government

Op-Ed: Americans have overly dramatic view of authoritarianism

Vox

Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government, writes in this Vox opinion piece that Americans have a "fantastical" and "cartoonish" image of authoritarianism, while life for people living in authoritarian countries is similar to the daily life of many Americans.

English

Renowned local authors launch spring Zalaznick Reading Series

Department of English

The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading features poet and writer Alice Fulton and fiction writer Helena María Viramontes.

History of Art

Alum reimagines blackness in contemporary African-American art

A&S Communications

Derek Conrad Murray’s MA ’04, PhD ’05 recently published book, Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (2016), arose from his interest in “post-blackness,” a term that emerged in the art world in the early 2000s, and immediately became a controversial and hotly-debated topic.

History

Campus group creates a different kind of writing community

A&S Communications

“My name’s Ishmael, what’s yours?” -- or would “Call me Ishmael” better open a narrative about whaling? Tone, diction, style: these are the kinds of questions Cornell’s Historians Are Writers! (HAW) grapple with in their meetings.

Alumni

'Radical collaboration' sets its sights on cancer treatment

Cornell Chronicle

A&S alum Dr. Lewis Cantley is a leader on the project, which could dramatically shorten the timeline for new drug treatments and possibly save millions of lives.

Physics

In Search of New Physics Phenomena

Cornell Research

Despite the distance, Cornell researchers are actively involved in the cutting-edge particle physics experiments taking place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.This Cornell Research story explores the many projects and discoveries Cornell faculty are undertaking as they pursue answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries.

Government

No, Trump didn't do surprisingly well among Latino voters

New York Daily News

In this NY Daily News opinion piece, Sergio Garcia-Rios, assistant professor of government and Latina/o studies, says exit polls reporting that Donald Trump received a larger share of the Latino vote than Mitt Romney did in the 2012 were wrong.

Outreach

Nine Arts and Sciences faculty chosen as 2017 Public Voices Fellows

A&S Communications

The voices shaping the important conversations of our age, from racial unrest to income inequality and sustainability, are getting a little more diverse, thanks to Cornell University's Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program. 

Entrepreneurship

Undergrad’s concussion detection device offers speedy diagnosis

A&S Communications

The device would allow coaches to make better informed decisions before returning an athlete to play.